Survival movies about the fight for your life .

Hunger, thirst, heat, tiredness. Snow, ice, long walks. Wild animals, hostile nature. Relentless enemies, grueling chases, unsustainable pressure. To accommodate the death of the other and your survival. And worst of all, loneliness and own your Phil city. With circumstances such as those described in the previous paragraph and drawing strength from weakness, the human being has struggled to survive. The survival instinct leads to unimaginable efforts and feats and sometimes to acts of cruelty or to set aside the most sacred convictions. It is by the following list of survival movies about the fight for your life.

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The Emperor’s Journey

(2005) | 85 min. | Documentary film

Direction: Luc Jacquet

It unfolds like a fish in water in the sea, but on land, its gait is clumsy. Why does the penguin have to leave the ocean to make a long march through a white and barren desert, where he …

Hotel Rwanda

Hotel Rwanda

(2004) | 121 min. | Drama

Direction: Terry George

Cast: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte, Joaquin Phoenix

Thank God, it is a constant human history that incredible acts of heroism also arise in the most terrible moments. And that gives hope. This movie talks about how great evils give …

The Machinist

The Machinist

(2004) | 102 min. | Thriller

Director: Brad Anderson

Cast: Christian Bale , Aitana Sánchez-Gijón , Jennifer Jason Leigh , John Shariam

  Survival movies: Trevor is a rather weird-looking guy who has insomnia and never eats. The result is a pitiful appearance, of a face with large dark circles and a lean body. The thing is, Trevor …

As far as my feet take me

As far as my feet take me

(2001) | 156 min. | Drama

Direction: Hardy Martins

Cast: Bernhard Bettermann , Michael Mendl , Irina Pantaeva , Iris Böhm

Survival movies: Luxurious German production adapts a best seller written in 1955 by Josef Martin Bauer, which on a real event, the odyssey that the German soldier Clemens Forell lived through. During the Second …

Hidden business

Hidden business

(2002) | 97 min. | Drama

Director: Stephen Frears

Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor , Sergi López , Sophie Okonedo , Audrey Tautou

Survival movies: A contentious issue, organ trafficking, is tackled in Stephen Frears’ Dirty Pretty Things, where immigrants accept such incredible propositions as having a kidney removed to …

Open water

Open water

(2003) | 79 min. | Terror

Director: Chris Kentis

Cast: Daniel Travis , Blanchard Ryan, Estelle Lau, Saul Stein

Survival movies: Daniel and Susan, a young married couple who don’t seem to be going through a good streak. Both take a plane to an undetermined island in the Caribbean, where they will spend a day of scuba diving. But in the …

Touching the void

Touching the void

(2003) | 105 min. | Documentary film

Direction: Kevin Macdonald

Cast: Nicholas Aaron, Brendan Mackey, Joe Simpson, Simon Yates

Survival movies: In 1985, two expert climber friends, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates set out to ascend the western face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. The climb, never done before, went well, but …

Tomorrow

Tomorrow

(2004) | 124 min. | Action | Drama

Director: Roland Emmerich

Cast: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Dash Mihok

survival movies: A catastrophic film that takes advantage of a very topical issue: climate change. A disturbance in the Atlantic current produces a cataclysm of planetary proportions. Thaw,…

In search of fire

In search of fire

(nineteen eighty-one) | 100 min. | Adventure

Direction: Jean-Jacques Annaud

Cast: Everett McGill, Ron Perlman, Nicholas Kadi, Rae Dawn Chong 

 Survival movies: For the prehistoric Ulam tribe, fire is a fundamental element. With its help, they scare away wild beasts, and it also helps them warm themselves. Until during an attack by a rival clan, the flame is …

Cold mountain

Cold mountain

(2003) | 152 min. | Drama | Western

Director: Anthony Minghella

Cast: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Renée Zellweger

 Survival movies: The American Civil War. Inman, a soldier, fighting on the southern side, is wounded. In the convalescent stage, a letter from his beloved Ada, daughter of a clergyman, arrives at his hands.

Castaways

Castaways

(1944) | 96 min. | Warlike | Drama

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson

Survival movies: An Allied freighter by a German submarine. The eight survivors try to stay alive aboard a lifeboat. Everything is going well until they pick up a Nazi survivor, about to …

Sole witness

Sole witness

(1985) | 108 min. | Romantic | Thriller

Director: Peter Weir

Cast: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer, Lukas Haas

Survival movies: To protect an Amish child, witness a murder, a police officer travels to the town where this small and unique religious community lives. There he will make friends with the boy and will know the …

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

(1970) | 110 min. | Western

Director: Sam Peckinpah

Cast: Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner, Strother Martin

 Survival movies: His two partners abandon a guy in the desert. Against all odds, he finds water before he dies. And, neither short nor lazy, start a business to refresh travelers while staying at …

The Game

The Game

(1997) | 128 min. | Action | Thriller

Director: David Fincher

Cast: Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger, James Rebhorn

 Survival movies: Nicholas Van Orton, a lonely and selfish executive who thinks he has seen it all and is a little tired of life, receives a curious birthday present from his brother: a game with …

Master and Commander. The other side of the world

Master and Commander. The other side of the world

(2003) | 138 min. | Adventure

Director: Peter Weir

Cast: Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, James D’Arcy, Edward Woodall

Survival movies: Leeward. Jib, ratchet, bowsprit. More than a lover of adventure books, he has felt lost between incomprehensible nautical terms when reading novels that take place at sea. For those who are …

The Sun’s empire

The Sun’s empire

(1987) | 147 min. | Warlike | Drama

Director: Steven Spielberg

Cast: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Joe Pantoliano, Miranda Richardson

  Survival movies: Jim Graham is a British boy, an only child, who lives with his parents in Shanghai. Its comfortable existence among cotton will upside down during World War II. …

28 days later

28 days later

(2002) | 113 min. | Science fiction | Terror

Director: Danny Boyle

Cast: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Noah Huntley, Brendan Gleeson

Survival movies: A group of British ecologists raids a laboratory where experiments on monkeys. Big mistake! His intention was good, to free the animals, but they could not suspect that he was …

Stolen generation

Stolen generation

(2002) | 94 min. | Drama

Director: Phillip Noyce

Cast: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, Kenneth Branagh

  Survival movies: At the beginning of the 20th century, the government launched a shameful plan of ethnic cleansing in Australia. It programmed the disappearance of the mestizos, children of white settlers and aborigines. For it,…

The pianist

The pianist

(2002) | 150 min. | Drama

Director: Roman Polanski

Cast: Adrien Brody , Thomas Kretschmann , Frank Finlay , Maureen Lipman

Survival movies: That war is a complete horror; every child of a neighbor knows. But without a doubt, there are horrors and horrors, and the one that the Szpilman family has to suffer is one of those that make time. At the outbreak of the Second …

 Battle royale

Battle royale

(2000) | 118 min. | Action | Drama

Direction: Kinji Fukasaku

Cast: Takeshi Kitano , Tatsuya Fujiwara , Aki Maeda , Taro Yamamoto

Survival movies: The future. In Japan, violence in the classroom is entirely out of control. To solve the problem, the authoritarian government launches a dubious initiative called Battle Royale. Every year,…

Never play with strangers.

Never play with strangers

(2001) | 96 min. | Thriller

Direction: John Dahl

Cast: Paul Walker, Steve Zahn, Leelee Sobieski, Jessica Bowman

Survival movies: Lewis and Fuller, two brothers, travel from Colorado to New Jersey. Before they by Vienna, a young woman who Lewis has a crush on, they pick up on the radio the voice of a truck driver wanting to chatter, who …

Caught in the ice

Caught in the ice

(2000) | 97 min. | Documentary film

Director: George Butler

The average viewer tends to consider the documentary as a minor genre. Okay, it’s a cinema, but… it’s something else. The elements are less controllable; emotion is lacking, the narrative modes are always very …

 The Hole

The Hole

(2001) | 102 min. | Thriller

Director: Nick Hamm

Cast: Thora Birch, Keira Knightley, Desmond Harrington, Laurence Fox

 Survival movies:  A police psychologist interrogates Liz, a teenager. The latter begins to remember the ordeal she had with three colleagues, two boys, and a girl. The four have passed two weeks …

Vertical limit

Vertical limit

(2000) | 126 min. | Sporty | Adventures | Drama

Director: Martin Campbell

Cast: Chris O’Donnell, Robin Tunney, Stuart Wilson, Izabella Scorupco 

Survival movies: Two mountain brothers have not spoken to each other since the death of their father in a climb. Peter then made a tragic decision: cut the rope that linked the three of them to save his life and that of 

Castaway

Castaway

(2000) | 143 min. | Adventures | Drama

Direction: Robert Zemeckis

Cast: Helen Hunt, Tom Hanks, Nick Searcy, Chris Noth

Survival movies: Chuck Noland, an executive at an express delivery company, always rushes from one place to another. He doesn’t have time to formalize his marriage to Kelly. On one of his lightning trips to. 

They live!

They live!

(1993) | 127 min. | Drama

Director: Frank Marshall

Cast: Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, Josh Hamilton, Bruce Ramsay

Survival movies: On October 13, 1972, Friday, a plane carrying a team of South American athletes suffered an accident and crashed in the heart of the Andes. After several days of intense.

Live!

Live!

(1994) | 120 min. | Drama

Director: Zhang Yimou

Cast: Ge You, Gong Li, Ben Niu, Xiao Cong

Survival movies: Cinema with capital letters. It tells the story of a Chinese family throughout four decades, within the framework of the turbulent history of the Asian country since the rise to power of Mao. It’s the forties …

Apollo 13

Apollo 13

(nineteen ninety-five) | 134 min. | Historical | Drama

Direction: Ron Howard

Cast: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise

Survival movies: Reconstruction of the difficult Apollo 13 space mission a year after man first set foot on the Moon. For the Americans, the task was a routine trip.

Deli

Deli

(1991) | 99 min. | Comedy

Direction: Marc Caro , Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Cast: Pascal Benezech , Dominique Pinon , Marie-Laure Dougnac , Jean-Claude Dreyfus

  Survival movies: One of the greatest successes of French cinema in recent years, which is due to its innovative visual style and the incredible imagination that exudes each of its shots. Also, create a world of your own. 

The Challenge (1997)

The Challenge (1997)

(1997) | 110 min. | Adventure

Direction: Lee Tamahori

Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Elle Macpherson, Harold Perrineau

 Survival movies: After an unexpected plane crash, a billionaire and his wife’s lover, a young and sought-after fashion photographer, try to survive in the frozen and hostile lands of Alaska. They will soon discover. 

The fugitive

The fugitive

(1993) | 130 min. | Police | Action

Direction: Andrew Davis

Cast: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Julianne Moore, Sela Ward

  Survival movies: Dr. Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford) of the murder of his wife. During his transfer to prison, an accident allows him to escape. Turned into a fugitive, will hunt him.

Planet of the Apes (1968)

Planet of the Apes (1968)

(1968) | 112 min. | Science fiction

Address: Franklin J. Schaffner

Cast: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans

Survival movies: Subjective camera. A ship crashes on an unknown planet. The viewer believes that he is falling. Without the need for modern effects, without having to integrate a model of the vehicle into the. 

King of the hill

King of the hill

(1993) | 99 min. | Drama

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Cast: Jesse Bradford , Jeroen Krabbé , Lisa Eichhorn , Karen Allen

Survival movies:  During the years of the Great Depression in the United States, a twelve-year-old boy with a great imagination lives in a seedy hotel together father, a street vendor, his mother, and his brother.

The Poseidon Adventure

The Poseidon Adventure

(1972) | 117 min. | Action | Adventure

Direction: Ronald Neame

Cast: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley

 Survival movies: During the New Year’s Eve celebration, a luxurious ocean liner suffers a terrible accident, being hit by a gigantic wave that causes it to capsize. The survivors in the. 

Network

Network

(Nineteen ninety-five) | 112 min. | Thriller

Director: Irwin Winkler

Cast: Jeremy Northam, Sandra Bullock, Dennis Miller, Diane Baker

Survival movies: Angela Bennet (Sandra Bullock) is a determined woman who works as a computer specialist. He is brilliant in his profession and traversing the complex digital world in search of viruses or any. 

The Robinsons of the South Seas

The Robinsons of the South Seas

(1960) | 127 min. | Adventure

Direction: Ken Annakin

Cast: John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro

  Survival movies: One of the most famous productions of the Disney company. It tells the epic story of the Robinson family, who, after a shipwreck, carry out a feat full of courage and heroism. The family will be …

The 3 godparents

The 3 godparents

(1948) | 103 min. | Western | Comedy | Drama

Direction: John Ford

Cast: John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond

  Survival movies: Master John Ford began in the silent film era, directing over 140 films over five decades. Almost all of them are correct; none are considered a career skid, and some. 

Maximum risk

Maximum risk

(1993) | 111 min. | Action

Director: Renny Harlin

Cast: Sylvester Stallone , John Lithgow , Michael Rooker , Janine Turner

Survival movies: Gabe Walker (Sylvester Stallone) is a former member of the Mountain Rescue Service. He was very effective at his job until an unfortunate accident made him withdraw from the profession. Now, a group …

Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan

(1998) | 169 min. | Warlike

Director: Steven Spielberg

Cast: Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore, Paul Giamatti

 Survival movies: A World War II veteran visits the Omaha Beach Cemetery with his family. Memories crowd his memory. The events of that already distant June 6, 1944. On D-day. 

Cube

Cube

(1997) | 92 min. | Science fiction

Direction: Vincenzo Natali

Cast: Maurice Dean Wint, Nicole de Boer, Nicky Guadagni, David Hewlett

  Survival movies: A motley group of people are imprisoned, without knowing why, in a large grid of cubes. Are they guinea pigs for a military regime experiencing a new system of torture? Who. 

Below zero

Below zero

(2005) | 115 min. | Adventure

Director: Frank Marshall

Cast: Paul Walker, Bruce Greenwood, Moon Bloodgood, Jason Biggs

Survival movies: Jerry works as a guide with a scientific station located in Antarctica. Lonely and lovesick, he pours all his tenderness into his faithful sled dogs. After an eventful expedition. 

Schindler’s List

Schindler’s List

(1993) | 194 min. | Historical | Drama

Director: Steven Spielberg

Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall

Survival movies: Nailed in memory, we have the anguished face of Liam Neeson, with teary eyes and a desperate gesture. At the same time, around him, a group of men and women dramatically moved: “He …

Alien, the eighth passenger

Alien, the eighth passenger

(1979) | 117 min. | Science fiction | Terror

Director: Ridley Scott

Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Ian Holm, John Hurt

In the summer of 1979 something changed in the cinema. Never before has a science fiction movie been so sinister and terrifying, nothing to do with crystalline clarity, aseptic, and also. 

Ana Frank’s diary

Ana Frank’s diary

(1959) | 172 min. | Biographical | Drama

Director: George Stevens

Cast: Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters, Richard Beymer

The tragic true story of a Jewish adolescent who lived in Amsterdam in the 1940s. Anne Frank suffered Nazi persecution and recorded her ordeal in the newspaper referred to by the. 

Flight of the Phoenix (1965)

Flight of the Phoenix (1965)

(1965) | 142 min. | Adventure

Direction: Robert Aldrich

Cast: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy Krüger

Adventure film specialist Robert Aldrich tells of a plane crash in the middle of the desert. The survivors to their own devices, but one of the travelers, who claim to be. 

Bear

Bear

(1988) | 94 min. | Adventure

Direction: Jean-Jacques Annaud

Cast: Tchéky Karyo, Jack Wallace , André Lacombe

Singular and beautiful film, whose absolute protagonism corresponds to two bears. Frenchman Jean-Jacques Annaud, with hardly any human presence and no dialogue, shows us the struggle for the survival of a bear. 

The Gold Chimera

The Gold Chimera

(1925) | 69 min. | Melodrama

Director: Charles Chaplin

Cast: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman

Chaplin’s masterpiece, where he plays a lonely gold digger who comes to Alaska searching for fortune. A strong storm forces him to take refuge in a bandit’s cabin. It contains one of his gags. 

When fate reaches us

When fate reaches us

(1973) | 90 min. | Science fiction

Director: Richard Fleischer

Cast: Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors

In 2022, a detective investigates the death of a company manager that manufactures revolutionary Food. Future Food is the subject of a chilling, pessimistic science tape. 

The last man … alive

The last man … alive

(1971) | 97 min. | Science fiction

Direction: Boris Sagal

Cast: Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash, Paul Koslo

A scientist survives the nuclear war but seems the only human still alive and by mutants. Excellent adaptation of the novel by Richard Matheson, which warns of the dangers of

The fireflies’ grave

The fireflies’ grave

(1988) | 93 min. | Animation

Direction: Isao Takahata

Young Seita and his little sister Setsuko fight to survive the horror of war. It is the years of World War II, and the two boys have lost their parents. …

The black steed

(1979) | 118 min. | Adventure

Director: Carroll Ballard

Cast: Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Teri Garr, Clarence Muse

The little savage

The little savage

(1970) | 83 min. | Drama

Direction: François Truffaut

Cast: Jean-Pierre Cargol , François Truffaut , François Seigner , Jean Dasté

World trade center

World trade center

(2006) | 129 min. | Action | Drama

Direction: Oliver Stone

Cast: Nicolas Cage , Michael Peña , Maria Bello , Maggie Gyllenhaal

No one has the slightest doubt that the events of September 11, 2001, indelibly form the first lines of the history of the 21st century. The film that concerns us, to the scandal. 

The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath

(1940) | 128 min. | Drama

Direction: John Ford

Cast: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin

After losing their job, the Joads survive as huntsmen, cruising around California in a beat-up truck, looking for land to harvest crops. …

Sons of men

Sons of men

(2006) | 109 min. | Science fiction | Drama

Direction: Alfonso Cuarón

Cast: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor

Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón agreed to freely adapt PD James’s novel Children of Men, attracted by its premise: a near future, the year 2027, with humanity in danger. 

Shark

Shark

(1975) | 124 min. | Action | Adventures | Terror | Thriller

Director: Steven Spielberg

Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary

The title that catapulted Steven Spielberg to fame, thanks to the confidence that the Universal studio showed him, astonished at what the young filmmaker had done with The Devil on Wheels. Taking a …

Apocalypto

Apocalypto

(2006) | 139 min. | Action | Drama

Director: Mel Gibson

Cast: Rudy Youngblood , Dalia Hernandez , Mayra Serbulo , Gerardo Taracena

An exciting film by Mel Gibson, set in the period of decline of the Mayan civilization before the arrival of the Spanish to the new world. The simple story, and if you like,

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

(1968) | 96 min. | Terror

Direction: George A. Romero

Cast: Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman

The disturbing horror film marked a whole path to the genre – and specifically to zombie stories – at the end of the sixties. Like other B movies, a full. 

Without fear of life

Without fear of life

(1993) | 122 min. | Drama

Director: Peter Weir

Cast: Jeff Bridges, Isabella Rossellini, Rosie Perez, Tom Hulce

A cornfield. A man with a baby in his arms. Behind him, a child follows him. There is some smoke. There is something unreal about the scene. What’s going on? The man leaves the field, and it begins to that an accident has. 

The sweet future

The sweet future

(1997) | 112 min. | Drama

Direction: Atom Egoyan

Cast: Ian Holm, Caerthan Banks, Sarah Polley, Alberta Watson

Adaptation of a brutal novel by Russell Banks about the consequences of a tragic school bus accident. The film takes as a common thread the visits that a lawyer makes to the families of the. 

Invasion of the body thieves

Invasion of the body thieves

(1956) | 80 min. | Terror

Direction: Don Siegel

Cast: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan

Miles Bennell, a doctor in Santa Mira, a small Californian town, investigates several of the locals, who behave like another person according to their relatives.

Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe

(1954) | 90 min. | Adventure

Direction: Luis Buñuel

Cast: Dan O’Herlihy , Jaime Fernández , Felipe de Alba , Chel López

XVII century. Robinson Crusoe, an Englishman who survives a shipwreck, manages to swim to an island that seems deserted. After the years, he discovers that savages inhabit the place. After a …

The great carnival

The great carnival

(1951) | 106 min. | Drama

Direction: Billy Wilder

Cast: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall

Chuck, an unscrupulous journalist, thinks he has the news of her life. A humble man has, and exclusive interviews with him increase his popularity, for his undoubted. 

Germany, year zero

Germany, year zero

(1948) | 78 min. | Social cinema | Drama

Direction: Roberto Rossellini

Cast: Edmund Moeschke , Ernst Pittschau , Ingetraud Hinze , Franz-Otto Krüger

At the end of World War II, Berlin is a city in ruins where all gangsters proliferate. Edmund, 15, tries to survive with his family through all kinds of tricks. 

The screams of silence

The screams of silence

(1984) | 141 min. | Warlike | Drama

Direction: Roland Joffé

Cast: Sam Waterston , Haing S. Ngor , John Malkovich , Julian Sands

The shocking true story of journalists set against the horrors of the Cambodian war. In 1973, New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg enlisted the help of a local photographer, Dith Pran,

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies

(1990) | 89 min. | Action | Drama

Direction: Harry Hook

Cast: Balthazar Getty, Chris Furrh, Danuel Pipoly, James Badge Dale

Adaptation of the most famous work of the Nobel Prize winner William Golding. The plane carrying the boys who study in a military school crashes on a desert island. There are no surviving adults. 

Wolf Creek

Wolf Creek

(2005) | 99 min. | Terror | Thriller

Director: Greg Mclean

Cast: John Jarratt, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi, Nathan Phillips

Two British girls, Liz and Kristy, and an Australian from Sydney, Mick, go sightseeing in South Australia. As the perfect ending to your vacation, prepare your return to the capital traveling in a. 

Mad Max 2, the road warrior

Mad Max 2, the road warrior

(nineteen eighty-one) | 95 min. | Action | Adventure

Director: George Miller

Cast: Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Michael Preston, Max Phipps

Inevitable sequel after the success of the 1979 original. Once again, the Action takes us to the future. Only the strongest survive, including “crazy” Max, now turned into a loner who …

Waterworld

Waterworld

(nineteen ninety-five) | 136 min. | Action | Science fiction

Director: Kevin Reynolds

Cast: Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Michael Jeter

The ice in the polar caps has melted, and the waters cover the Earth. Its inhabitants live in infected aquatic cities hoping to one day set foot on the mythical Dry Land. Arrival at a …

The diving suit and the butterfly

The diving suit and the butterfly

(2007) | 112 min. | Biographical | Drama

Direction: Julian Schnabel

Cast: Mathieu Amalric , Emmanuelle Seigner , Marie-Josée Croze , Anne Consigny

An unforgettable film, to give it many turns in the coconut, is rich in history and aesthetic treatment. It earned Julian Schnabel the best director award at Cannes, in all fairness. Account…

Defending

Defending

(1972) | 109 min. | Action | Drama

Director: John Boorman

Cast: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox

Ed, Bobby, Lewis, and Drew are four friends about to enjoy a river descent. But what promises to be a time to rest turns into something quite akin to hell when some guys. 

I’m legend

I’m legend

(2007) | 101 min. | Action | Science fiction

Director: Francis Lawrence

Cast: Will Smith, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Paradox Pollack, Alice Braga

Humanity is in luck because scientists led by Dr. and Colonel Robert Neville have developed a retrovirus that seems to be the ultimate remedy against cancer. But.

Towards wild routes

Towards wild routes

(2007) | 140 min. | Adventures | Biographical

Direction: Sean Penn

Cast: Emile Hirsch, Jena Malone, Marcia Gay Harden, Brian Dierker

An extraordinary and powerful film by the charismatic actor and director Sean Penn recreates a shocking true story. The script was written by Penn himself on the book by Jon Krakauer and assumes. 

Cornered

Cornered

(1982) | 90 min. | Action

Director: Ted Kotcheff

Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy, Bill McKinney

An American homeless man, a former green beret, hitchhiking, is arrested by the police and taken to prison. The tramp’s name is John Rambo, and no one assumes that this man is a hero. 

The counterfeiters

The counterfeiters

(2007) | 98 min. | Drama

Direction: Stefan Ruzowitzky

Cast: Karl Markovics , August Diehl , Devid Striesow , Martin Brambach

A film based on actual events is a book by Adolf Burger, one of its protagonists. Despite this, it takes another authentic character as the axis of the plot, the Russian Jew Salomon “Sally”…

The fog

The fog

(2007) | 127 min. | Terror

Director: Frank Darabont

Cast: Thomas Jane, Laurie Holden, Andre Braugher, Marcia Gay Harden 

A significant storm causes extensive damage in a small town in Maine. The next day, a strange fog. With no telephone or electricity, at the nearby military base, there is a. 

 Nell

Nell

(1994) | 107 min. | Drama

Director: Michael Apted

Cast: Jodie Foster, Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson, Richard Libertini

Nell is a young girl who has always lived with her mother in a house in the mountains, everyone, and everything and using a unique language. When the mother dies, Nell is unable to survive on her own. 

The man from a wildland

The man from a wildland

(1971) | 104 min. | Adventures | Western

Director: Richard C. Sarafian

Cast: Richard Harris, John Huston, Prunella Ransome, Percy Herbert

Zachary Bass (Richard Harris), a Western guide who leads fur hunters to Missouri across the country, is unexpectedly attacked by a bear on Canadian soil, leaving him. 

The Mosquito Coast

The Mosquito Coast

(1986) | 117 min. | Adventure

Director: Peter Weir

Cast: Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix, Conrad Roberts

Allie Fox is an irate investor who has tired of the consumerism and waste that the big city brings. Hence, she leaves with her entire family to live in the Honduran jungle. Life there will not be. 

Encounters at the end of the world

Encounters at the end of the world

(2007) | 99 min. | Documentary film

Direction: Werner Herzog

Endurance

(2008) | 137 min. | Warlike | Drama

Director: Edward Zwick

Cast: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, George MacKay

In the years of World War II, the true story of the four Bielski brothers in Belarus that the Nazis are striving to conquer. After the murder of his parents, with the despicable. 

Blindness

Blindness

(2008) | 120 min. | Drama

Direction: Fernando Meirelles

Cast: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga, Yusuke Iseya

Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire

(2008) | 120 min. | Drama

Direction: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan

Cast: Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Saurabh Shukla, Rajendranath Zutshi 

The Englishman Danny Boyle became known to the general public in 1996 after directing Trainspotting, an impressive film about the world of drugs. It was the beginning of a filmography not too extensive, but. 

Rescue at dawn

Rescue at dawn

(2006) | 126 min. | Warlike

Direction: Werner Herzog

Cast: Zach Grenier, Marshall Bell, Christian Bale, Toby Huss

During the Vietnam War, Dieter Dengler, a German-American pilot, tries to survive in Laos after his plane has. Captured and tortured by the enemy, he to a field. 

Avatar

Avatar

(2009) | 165 min. | Epic | Action | Adventures | Science fiction

Direction: James Cameron

Cast: Sam Worthington , Sigourney Weaver , Michelle Rodríguez , Zoe Saldana

The year 2154. The paralytic ex-marine Jake Sully is required to an expedition to the planet Pandora, replacing his twin brother, fatally killed in a street robbery. Your genetic match will. 

The Road

The Road

(2009) | 111 min. | Drama

Director: John Hillcoat

Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Guy Pearce, Charlize Theron

High-altitude, unforgettable, brutal cinema. For its simple history, for its anthropological depth, for its impressive staging. Writer Cormac McCarthy got lucky in the last two adaptations. 

Cell 211

Cell 211

(2009) | 110 min. | Action | Drama

Direction: Daniel Monzón

Cast: Alberto Ammann , Luis Tosar , Antonio Resines , Carlos Bardem

Intense prison film directed by Daniel Monzón (The warrior’s heart, The Kovak box) based on the homonymous novel by FP Gandul. Monzón shows that he is one of the most famous Spanish directors. 

Precious

Precious

(2009) | 109 min. | Drama

Direction: Lee Daniels

Cast: Gabourey Sidibe, Mo’Nique, Paula Patton, Lenny Kravitz 

A very tough film, based on the novel by Sapphire. It tells of the tribulations of Clarence ‘Precious’ Jones, a young and obese 17-year-old black woman, intelligent and sensitive, but who has suffered sexual abuse …

Welcome to Zombieland

Welcome to Zombieland

(2009) | 88 min. | Terror | Comedy

Director: Ruben Fleischer

Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson, Abigail Breslin 

Many directors have managed to attract attention with zombie films since George A. Romero debuted with the classic Night of the Living Dead, a clear model for his followers …

City of life and death

City of life and death

(2009) | 135 min. | Warlike | Drama

Address: Lu Chuan

Cast: Hideo Nakaizumi , Liu Ye , Fan Wei , Gao Yuanyuan

Chinese cinema sheds light on a page in its recent history, the tribulations of the city of Nanjing when Japan occupied it in December 1937. Lu Chuan drives in the great blockbuster. 

The book of Eli

The book of Eli

(2010) | 118 min. | Action | Adventure

Direction: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes

Cast: Denzel Washington, Mila Kunis, Gary Oldman, Michael Gambon

A lonely guy walks down a road. On both sides, you can see an endless landscape, desolate, dusty. The world, as we know it, has disappeared. There is nothing, not even the most. 

Buried

Buried

(2010) | 95 min. | Thriller

Direction: Rodrigo Cortés

Cast: Ryan Reynolds , Robert Paterson , José Luis García Pérez , Stephen Tobolowsky

Between Wolfs

Between Wolfs

(2010) | 114 min. | Adventures | Biographical | Drama

Direction: Gerardo Olivares

Cast: Juan José Ballesta , Carlos Bardem , Manuel Camacho , Álex Brendemühl

Recreation survival movies of the real story of Marcos Pantoja, who as a child survived only for twelve years in the mountains of Sierra Morena. The situation began in 1954 and continued until 1966 when. 

Nanga Parbat

Nanga Parbat

(2010) | 105 min. | Adventures | Biographical | Drama | Epic

Direction: Joseph Vilsmaier

Cast: Florian Stetter , Andreas Tobias , Karl Markovics , Sebastian Bezzel

127 hours

127 hours

(2010) | 94 min. | Drama

Director: Danny Boyle

Cast: James Franco, Lizzy Caplan, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn 

The sanctuary

The sanctuary

(2010) | 109 min. | Action | Thriller

Director: Alister Grierson

Cast: Richard Roxburgh, Ioan Gruffudd, Rhys Wakefield, Alice Parkinson 

Way to freedom

Way to freedom

(2010) | 133 min. | Historical | Drama

Director: Peter Weir

Cast: Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, Mark Strong 

Siberia, 1940. The Polish Janusz has been sent to the gulag and shares harsh living conditions with the other prisoners. It weighs on his soul that he has for false accusation – obtained. 

Avarice

Avarice

(1924) | 141 min. | Drama

Direction: Erich von Stroheim

Cast: Zasu Pitts, Gibson Gowland, Jean Hersholt, Dale Fuller

McTeague, the son of a ruthless alcoholic miner, manages to escape an oppressive environment thanks to his mother’s efforts and establishes himself as a dentist. He befriends Marcus and marries his beloved. 

Lord of the Flies (1963)

Lord of the Flies (1963)

(1963) | 92 min. | Adventures |Drama

Director: Peter Brook

Cast: James Aubrey, Tom Chapin, Hugh Edwards, Roger Elwin

The plane transports the cadet boys from a military academy and crashes, and they end up on a desert island with no adults. The place is idyllic, and that promises to be a kind of long. 

Shackleton

Shackleton

(2002) TV series | 206 min. | Historical | Adventures | Biographical |Drama

Director: Charles Sturridge

Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Phoebe Nicholls, Eve Best, Embeth Davidtz

Ernest Shackleton’s true odyssey, setting off a British expedition to reach the South Pole on the eve of the First World War. His deed can lift the spirits of the discouraged. 

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